Cancer

a) Melanoma incidence per 100,000 (darker states indicate higher incidence of melanoma) Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the United States. While the number of cases diagnosed is on the rise, the overall survival rate has…

Scientists have created the most comprehensive method yet to predict a woman's risk of breast cancer, according to a study by Cancer Research UK published in Genetics in Medicine. They have a developed a way of calculating the risk of…

Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center HOUSTON - Complication rates following invasive diagnostic procedures for lung abnormalities were twice as high in the community setting compared to those reported in lung cancer screening trials, and…

Credit: University of Basel, Department of Biomedicine An innovative combination therapy can force malignant breast cancer cells to turn into fat cells. This can be used to prevent the formation of metastases in mice, as researchers at the…

Credit: Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel. As cancer cells respond to cues in their microenvironment, they can enter a highly plastic state in which they are susceptible to transdifferentiation into a different type of cell.…

Credit: Barts Charity Barts Charity has awarded £1.5 million to brain tumour research The grant will allow researchers to extend successful lab-based research into clinical trials with brain tumour patients 16,000 people are…

HOUSTON - Researchers have identified a new potential immunotherapy target in pancreatic cancer, which so far has been notoriously resistant to treatment with immune checkpoint blockade drugs effective against a variety of other cancers.…

Credit: Marco Brancaccio Astrocytes, 'caretaker' cells that surround and support neurons in the brain, play a much more important role in circadian rhythms, the body's 24-hour internal clock, than previously understood. The Medical…

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine A team led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Texas at Austin has applied an unconventional approach that used bacteria to discover human proteins that can lead to DNA…